Why You Need to Rid Your Home of Dust Mites!
We should not tolerate external parasites like bedbugs, lice, ticks, leeches as they can deliver disease and infection. Sounds harsh, but bedbugs were once a scourge among northern Europeans. Old remedies included spraying them (using kerosene) in the bedroom. This only “controlled” them. What eliminated them was a law against sale of used mattresses.
Lice were originally “controlled” by frequent washing, louse combs, and ironing the seams of clothing. What eliminated them was the cutting of long hair as a societal practice. But what about mites? They live with us and other animals. Mites are too tiny to see, tiny enough to ride on a dust particle as if it were a magic carpet. They resemble insects. Chiggers are really mites. Mange in animals is a mite infestation. Dust mites
live on our dander (scales of dead skin). Get rid of their breeding places: beds, cloth covered chairs and soft sofas. Humans leave enough dander behind in these places to support these ultra small insects.
Start by covering mattresses with plastic covers. Use throws on easy chairs and sofas and wash them often as hygiene is important with fabrics. For this reason, Noosa Prestige sanitize fabrics and mattresses automatically and include this process during cleaning. This may shock some people, however we should never allow a pet into the bedroom as the dust form their coat will have tapeworm eggs as well as mites. Throw out rugs that have been pet-beds. Spray the air with a mist of 50% grain alcohol before vacuuming.
If you have an illness wear a mask to vacuum. Also worth noting is wall to wall carpets compromise an ancient concept that states: everything should be washable and cleanable, without throwing the dirt into the air for humans to inhale. This is good reason to have carpets properly steam cleaned, since it washes the fibre clean and removes contaminants. Our carpet cleaning process always includes vacuuming with a HEPA filtered vacuum machine. Vacuuming a carpet without a HEPA filter simply blasts mites and tape eggs into the air.
And a final tip; never shake bedding or rugs where the dust will blow back into the house behind you. Mites don’t bite us but we inhale them as they float in the ever present dust in our homes. The mucus in our lungs traps them and in a few days they die, only to release a drove of Adenoviruses (common cold virus) inside us.
